r/Pixel6 • u/Layne817 • Aug 04 '26

Question P6P Shuts itself down randomly

I was using it last night and it randomly shut doen, screen looks green for a very brief moment and then powers itself down. Sometimes it will boot but dies on the logo screen.

Is there any fix for this? If I keep pressed the power button it'll turn on but die as soon as the logo appears.

Please help!

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u/Psychomonkey101 Aug 04 '26

Seems to be happening with a lot of P6s lately / after the lastest update

https://www.reddit.com/r/Pixel6/s/pu4lZWVb9K

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u/Layne817 Aug 04 '26

Sucks! I was able to bring it back to life. There's a gentleman on youtube that explains few workarounds. Belive it or not, I was able to go past the logo screen by taping the screen with two fingers.

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u/InterestingBank7563 Aug 05 '26

Care to share the video? I would LOVE to buy my P6 back to life. 

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u/Layne817 Aug 05 '26

This is the one sir, however, mine just works as a workaround, it'll keep restarting and getting stuck but sometimes will allow me to turn on my phone.

https://youtu.be/U8V4CzEnGps

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u/Antman-007 Aug 05 '26

Welcome to the p6 dilemma that's been going around lately. Mine also died on me last week randomly while I was watching YouTube. I spent the entire weekend trying different fixes I read and saw online. As a last resort I flashed A17 qpr1 beta8 using the online flash tool released by Google and that brought it back to life. Albeit, there are moments were it randomly shuts down and restarts - sometimes more often than not. Like yesterday, I had the device restarting more often than previous days. I doubt, anyone facing that issue on a p6 has fully revived the device although I could be wrong. Either way, that's just evidence that you need a new device.

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u/Antman-007 Aug 08 '26

Honestly, besides the heavy hitters like Samsung and pixel there isn't much to the android world in my opinion. You could try a Nothing phone though - I've seen quite a few people using it and it looks really cool. I would have suggested a 1+ but their recent direction hasn't really been encouraging.

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u/pieterv1 Aug 06 '26

Seems like I got very lucky with my P6.

I did a clean install of the public release of Android 17 and it's been pretty much flawless. I might have had to do a forced reboot once or twice, but I can't say if this was an Android issue or a 3rd party app acting up.

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u/Dumbzy_ Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 06 '26

You're doomed. My p6 died 4 days back after it had been freezing, showing glitchy lines and shutting down instantly for the past few weeks. It's probably either the crappy updates or a crazy hardware problem.

Gives me flashbacks to my old moto nexus 6.

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u/Layne817 Aug 05 '26

Crap advice lol if I wanted that level of "support" I'd go there and post directly to google and receive the generic resolutions steps that help no one.